colporteur
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French colporteur, from comporteur by influence of col (“neck”) (re-analyzed as col + porteur (“porter”)), from verb comporter, from Latin comportō (English comport).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /kɒlpɔː(ɹ)ˈtɜː(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun[edit]
colporteur (plural colporteurs)
- A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French colporteur.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
colporteur m (plural colporteurs)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
colporteur m (plural colporteurs, feminine colporteuse)
Descendants[edit]
- English: colporteur, colporter
Further reading[edit]
- “colporteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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